Designed for a client in Normandy, France by Ludwig Godefroy, this house features large exterior courtyards that provide privacy and shelter for its residents. A partially enclosed amphitheater serves as a circulatory element leading to the house’s front door.

This house was designed as a vacation home near the beach in San Agustín, Oaxaca by Ludwig Godefroy. Located at the top of a hill and surrounding a pre-existing public water tank, the design offers privacy for its vacationers while not being too imposing or exclusive to members of the village retrieving water. Each end offers swimming pools and bedrooms for separate families.

This vacation home located off the coast of Zicatela near Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca balances large, bunker-like masses with symmetry and void. Unassuming on the outside, the “interior” is experienced as a series of linear thresholds wherein residents can freely walk through, climb on, swim under. The pool at one end disconnects one of three bedrooms from the others. Godefroy describes it as “a bunker on the outside protecting a Mexican pyramid on the inside.”

Influenced by the philosphical movement Object Oriented Ontology, this design exploration sought to spatialize the concept of distance and paradox. Objects are unknown to us; we only have access to their relational expressions, while their true inner-selves remain withdrawn. This project inverts this notion. The outside is black, colorless, and closed off, while the inside, accessed only through four peep holes, emits color, light, and relationships within.